Artists Talk With LVA: October 20, 2022

Shauntrice Martin & Ada Asenjo are part of the first Curate Purchase Inspire cohort with LVA and they talk about their projects as they reach their conclusion. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursday at 10 am to hear all about it.

Shauntrice Martin is a mother, abolitionist, and artist. She was born and raised in Louisville, KY and currently serves as a lobbyist. Her artwork has reflected a tumultuous yet triumphant trajectory. The use of acrylics, textile, sculpture, and photography blend in her pieces to create sometimes haunting images of the lives Black and Indigenous people could have lived if white supremacy never existed. She created Chahta Noir as a resource & outlet for artists to develop, network, and BE.

Shauntrice is the inaugural Speed Art Museum Artist-In-Residence. Her photo journey is available via SPEEDxWEST. Shauntrice's museum solo exhibition "Something in the Water" opened at the Speed Art Museum in December 2021.

Her exhibit, Sweet Fire, is being installed at Play Cousins Collective and will officially open to the public in December 2022.

Ada Asenjo was born in the Dominican Republic where flowers bloom all throughout the year. Pressing flowers is something she has enjoyed doing most of her life! Pressed foliage has been used to elaborately embellish gifts and items for ages. Each petal and leaf is intricate beyond comparison, yet they are often overlooked. By juxtaposing different elements, their exquisite details become apparent.

Our existence is transient, and everything hinges on what or who came before. Nothing happens in isolation. I feel I must convey this hopeful message of the flowers: Today we live in Joy and Love.

Her exhibit ,Somo De Aqui y Afloramos, opens November 5 at La Casita Center

Artists Talk With LVA: October 13, 2022

Open Studio Louisville begins this Saturday so this week features two artists participating for the first time: Rhonda Goodall & Tomisha Loveley-Allen. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Rhonda K. Goodall is a painter living in Louisville, KY.  From her passionate support of the arts to her charitable and civic activities, Goodall is a beloved pillar of the community.  She is the principal and owner of her own consulting firm, Rhonda Goodall – Cre8ive Soulutions, which operates out of Goodall Gallery in the heart of the Clifton neighborhood.  She received her B.S. in Design from Eastern Kentucky University.  Her intuitive approach to art and design naturally ushered her into the forefront of a burgeoning, holistic faction of visionaries evolving the way humans inspire and inhabit spaces. 

Goodall’s paintings are the way she moves through the world; they are a concise expression of natural systems and the complex nuance of human emotion.  She awakens in one ideas they have yet to consider, revealing the true essence of life and channeling abundant heart energy onto canvas. 

Tomisha Lovely-Allen is a self-taught artist from Louisville, KY.  She earned a full scholarship at Northern Kentucky University and graduated with a Bachelor's in Accounting and Associate in Business Administration in 1998 and earned a Certified Public Accountant license in 2002. 

Tomisha began experimenting with watercolor, oil, and acrylics in 2002 but was most taken with oils and has concentrated on that medium and is drawn to figurative and portraiture.   

She has participated in art shows at the Portland Museum, Wayside Expressions Gallery, Maker’s Crucible, Kore Gallery, Roots 101 Museum (curated by Ashley Cathey), and most recently at the Arts Center of the Bluegrass. She obtained a spot to illustrate a historic Kentucky woman in the “Bluegrass Bold” children’s book project along with 35 other female artists, and she has exhibited in the Arts Center of the Bluegrass Show  “The Art of Being Black: Conversations and Experience,” and is a grant recipient from the Louisville Fund for the Arts '“Black Artist Grant”.

Artists Talk With LVA: October 6, 2022

This week Matt Weir from Falls Art Foundry and David & Terri Sierra talk about participating in the 2022 Open Studio Louisville. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA. Falls Art Foundry is Oct. 15 and the Sierras are both Oct. 15 & 22.

Matt Weir is a contemporary sculptor and artist known for his monumental works in stone, bronze, and mixed media. He graduated Cum Laude with a BFA from the University of Louisville Hite Art Institute with minors in Humanities and Art History in 2004. Throughout his time in school, he was busily apprenticing with a diverse set of professional artists, studios, and a bronze art foundry. Matt’s time associated with Bright Foundry lasted for approximately 15 years. In 2016 Bright Foundry closed permanently and he co-organized a team to succeed it as Falls Art Foundry, located in the Portland neighborhood as an essential resource to support the legacy of sculptural materials, methods, and education.

Matt Weir works in Louisville, Kentucky, where he grew up and has maintained a studio for the past 14 years. 

Creative Eyedias is an artist collaboration with art studios and an art gallery owned by Terri and David Sierra. Terri Sierra is a painter and photographer who founded Creative Eyedias in 2019, David is a painter.

Creative Eyedias is an encouraging and supportive space that would be owned by artists and run by artists, where artists are encouraged to create and art lovers can find art they love. It is located in Westport, Kentucky just a few miles upriver from Louisville..

Open Studio Louisville is October 15 & 22, 12 - 6 pm. Download the digital directory here.

Artists Talk With LVA: September 29, 2022

Darrenn Canton talks about being with LVA at The St. James Art Fair this weekend & Vinhay Keo talks about his upcoming exhibit at Moremen Gallery. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am t hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Vinhay Keo, born in Cambodia and currently based in Los Angeles, is an interdisciplinary visual artist and researcher. He employs photography, installation, sculpture, performance, and writing as strategies to explore the persistent hauntings of violence. By reading intimately across archives, Keo examines the legacy of the Khmer Rouge Genocide, the Vietnam War, colonialism in Indochina, and queer erasure throughout history and its effects on contemporary diasporic lives.  

Keo earned an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts (2020) and a BFA from the Kentucky College of Art + Design at Spalding University (2016). His work has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, He is a recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, the Emergency Response Program Award from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), Louisville Visual Art's Rising Star Award, and a Great Meadows Foundation grant. He has participated in various residency programs in the U.S. and abroad, including: Yale at Norfolk (Connecticut), Anderson Ranch Art Center (Colorado), and Tropical Lab (Singapore).

Vinhay returns to Louisville to open a show of his most recent work at Moremen Gallery on October 14. To Carve A Constellation

Darrenn E. Canton is an artist from Washington, DC who specializes in fantasy art, childrens' illustration, and cartooning. His work emphasizes humor, wit and character. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Communication Arts, and now resides in Louisville, KY with his dog, Trumpet.

Darrenn and his work will be featured in the LVA Local Muse booth (#332) at St. James Court Art Show, September 30, October 1-2.

Artists Talk With LVA: September 22, 2022

Why is Patrick Donley in a hole? Find out when he talks about his 1st show in 5 years: Groundhog Archeology, opening soon at garner narrative contemporary fine art. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.

Patrick Donley is a sculptor, musician, and "whim-sologist".  He made his reputation through colorful, collage-laden, abstract paintings. In the late 90's, he took a break from visual art to perform and record with the band Jakeleg.  After that he switched gears, and began producing wall-mounted, found-object sculptures.  His last body of work, The Memento Series, represented an attempt to marry his love of paint with his vast, obsessive collection of found objects and photos.  That melding of two and three dimensions, emblematic of a need to create order out of chaos is further discovered in his latest project.

Patrick Donley: Groundhog Archeology, photographs and lightbox installations

Oct. 1-29  - garner narrative contemporary fine art, opening reception Oct. 9, Sunday, 1-4 pm